Example Crossword for Westbury History as a Discipline
Across
- 3. the name of this course
- 5. form of citation that usually leads a reader to a specific page or subset of pages
- 11. academic institution that maintains online Sourcebooks with primary sources, usually poorly transcribed
- 12. the type of history that looks at people "from below" rather than focusing on great and powerful people
- 18. the type of history that focuses on the interactions between people and the physical world around them
- 20. first and last name of instructor
- 21. the writing of history (and the study of its writing)
- 23. is usually a compilation of data drawn from secondary sources
Down
- 1. form of citation that usually leads a reader to a whole source and is found at the end of the source
- 2. a type of social history that looks at the construction of models of masculinity and femininity, as well as how those impact social structures (e.g. matrilineality's impact on power structures and the movement of people)
- 4. a more traditional type of history that focuses on the campaigns, technologies, and strategies of generals
- 6. nightly writing happens in this
- 7. dates from the time period
- 8. a type of history that focuses on sacred books, beliefs, and practices
- 9. the more traditional type history that tends to focus on lawmakers and elites
- 10. Crash Course narrator
- 13. the type of record most commonly used by social historians to understand the lives of the poor
- 14. the "bible" for students doing citation in this course
- 15. a type of article that discusses the merit or problems of a secondary source
- 16. a database of print secondary sources that has been digitized
- 17. the period from 600BCE to roughly 650CE
- 19. a way of searching for terms via Google by limiting the search to specific urls
- 22. the chain of transmission for historians